Pre-production 3rd generation Planet Ocean

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wkdoc

·Tues. 4:41am

Hi guys!

I wanted to inquire about an interesting piece I found for sale - supposedly, a pre-production/prototype 3rd generation Planet Ocean… but with a month complication. The selling party is a decently regular jewellery store with good reviews, but on the other hand, I’ve never seen anything like it. Could anybody provide any information on the piece, or even if it’s possible that it truly is a pre-production model?

Cheers!

 

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YY77

·Tues. 4:59am

I would avoid purchasing this, why put yourself in a situation if you can just buy a normal/genuine PO.

 

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dsio

·Tues. 7:05am·Ash @ ΩF

So not for sale piece are around and come up occasionally, the trouble is without really concrete evidence that this watch was gifted to someone and released from Omega, this is likely still the property of the company.

That creates a significant issue because you may be then purchasing stolen goods, and it may end up being confiscated when you have it serviced.

 

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McBeardy

·Tues. 1:11pm

Is it even real?

 

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STANDY

·Tues. 1:36pm

From reddit

If you have a watch that says "Omega Planet Ocean" and features both a month and a date, it is 100% a fake or a heavily modified counterfeit.

 

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drhex

·Thurs. 12:28pm

How much do they want for this? Could be legit (but you may be negatively surprised on service as per above). @Archer, what does the serial bring up?

 

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DSotW

·Thurs. 1:51pm

dsio

So not for sale piece are around and come up occasionally, the trouble is without really concrete evidence that this watch was gifted to someone and released from Omega, this is likely still the property of the company.

That creates a significant issue because you may be then purchasing stolen goods, and it may end up being confiscated when you have it serviced.

Three or so years ago a pre-production Tin Tin Speedmaster was offered for sale locally to me (offered by the son of someone who worked at Omega who was managing this back in the day), it went for a lot of money in the end. If this is a real pre-production, it could be worth money, at least to someone interested. There is no real way of telling though until the time of sale. If you service it outside of the Omega universe, then no worries.

 

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dsio

·Thurs. 4:05pm·Ash @ ΩF

DSotW

Three or so years ago a pre-production Tin Tin Speedmaster was offered for sale locally to me (offered by the son of someone who worked at Omega who was managing this back in the day), it went for a lot of money in the end. If this is a real pre-production, it could be worth money, at least to someone interested. There is no real way of telling though until the time of sale. If you service it outside of the Omega universe, then no worries.

Well I wouldn’t say no worries if it’s stolen goods your buying, especially when there are now public photos of it out there making it easier to track down. If there is evidence that it was legitimately obtained that shouldn’t be hard to produce.

 

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ErichKeane

·Thurs. 5:04pm

I'd want to see better pictures of the movement, its hard to tell whether it is the real thing or not. The attention to detail of using an 8601 on a fake would be interesting, and it is a pretty high-effort one if fake.

I want to see better pictures of the movement, but I am leaning towards 'real'. Unless they are trying to get an obscene amount of money for it, the effort to make this as a fake would be really high.

On the other hand, that date window alignment is not great....

 

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drhex

·3:41am yesterday

Prototypes are out there (I have an automatic quartz Speedmaster e.g.). Doing something like this goes against faking, fakes try to be as close to the real thing as economically possible. Why do a month window if the thing would be much closer to the real one without it.